A Fresh Look at the Death and Life of RFK
June 5th is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. It was one of the formative events in Alec's childhood, and in the life of his father. The release of Dawn Porter's brillian...
5 Jun 201836min
Kubrick's Right-Hand Leading Man
Tony Zierra’s documentary Filmworker, opening May 11, highlights the best of movie-making. It sings an unsung hero, and through him, all the unsung heroes of Hollywood.Actor Leon Vitali got his break ...
22 Mai 201835min
Former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman
Schneiderman sat down with Alec last Thursday, just before news broke in the New Yorker that four women have accused him of, in the magazine's words, "non-consensual physical violence." In the context...
8 Mai 201837min
David Crosby: Don't Call It a Comeback
Some combination of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young played together for 50 years until 2016. The group survived even Crosby's near-total dissolution under the influence of cocaine and heroin. That was...
24 Apr 201847min
CNN's Jeffrey Toobin Is Not Just a Talking Head
Jeffrey Toobin is such a TV institution as a legal commentator that it can be hard to imagine him in casual clothes, outside a news studio. But it was the real, flesh-and-blood Jeff that showed up to ...
10 Apr 201838min
Did the Moody Blues Save Alec Baldwin from a Life of Crime?
Alec is a BIG fan of Justin Hayward -- vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter for The Moody Blues, pioneers of complex orchestral arrangements in rock. As he tells it, their songs were the only thing tha...
27 Mar 201843min
The Turnaround Artist: Janice Min on Magazines and #Metoo
Daughter of a science professor and an IRS agent, a double-graduate of Columbia herself, Janice Min turned her talents in the early 2000s to the glossy magazine Us Weekly. Celebrity journalism has nev...
13 Mar 201842min
The Fast Times and Long Career of Cameron Crowe
Cameron Crowe's teenage years are familiar to anyone who's seen his autobiographical Almost Famous: 16-year-old writing prodigy convinces Jan Wenner and Rolling Stone to let him tour with and profile ...
27 Feb 201844min
